Monday, July 31, 2006

Moderate quake shakes Mexico's southern Baja California region

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A moderate earthquake shook a rural, southern corner of Mexico's Baja California peninsula not far from the resort of Loreto Saturday evening, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The 5.8-magnitude temblor was centered in the Sea of Cortes, which separates the peninsula from Mexico's western coast, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Loreto and 860 kilometers (535 miles) southeast of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. Authorities in Baja California Sur state, where Loreto is located, said they had not received any reports of damage or injuries. Dale Grant, a geophysicist at the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center, said the quake was not powerful enough to trigger any...
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